这是我第一次在中国的短篇小说。 标题是“迷失东京”，它说明了糟糕的普通话发音的潜在后果。 如果你不读中国，我在评论中留下一个小的总结，或者用G翻译得到增强的体验[ 1 ]。

UPDATE：我转贴在天涯给它一些中国读者之间的空气的时间。 后，现在已经稳定在3000左右的读取和50个意见，我不认为它会走得更远。 这是一个很好的实验，在中国BBS传播，我会尽快分析结果。

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译不达意

帮助迷失于中文中的老外找回爱之路

还说他一个人。无友可靠！

我马上回邮请他来上海我家住几天，看看能不能帮助他。

继续»

1. 也就是说，您将失去在翻译迷失东京[ ↩ ]

我首次访问世博作为一个孩子，我的学校时带走了我所有一起上课，塞维利亚92。 西班牙住了疯狂的一年，奥运会，其中发生在同一时间，那年夏天，世博会是有史以来规模最大的之一。 像现在在中国，有一些腐败和挥霍的钱的辩论，人们真的不知道什么展会是所有关于。

第一届世博会在很多方面，这是中国现在正在做一个非常类似。 西班牙已经证明的东西，它通过自身的改革开放（改革开放）在70年代末开始向民主过渡的。 然后它继续在上世纪80年代加入欧盟，并在1992年，它终于开始看起来像一个发达国家。 老悲观的短语“西班牙是不同的”感觉就像从过去的事情已经“背后的比利牛斯山脉的欧洲开始”。

当然，改革在这里有“中国特色”，和中国庞大的人口需要更多的时间比西班牙完成的发展。 但总体而言，有明确并行92西班牙和中国2008年至2010年之间，是关于世博会的我很兴奋的原因之一。 这是伟大的东西，在92，我在智利馆，室外温度控制系统，当时 ​​看不见的冰山块有一些很酷的回忆。 点击继续»

谷歌的新方法对中国的情况正在比预期的慢，但我有一种感觉，我们可能很快看到事情发生。 新年过后， 双人会议即将结束，中国政府将可能要在上海世博会的议程，未来的大项目之前清零。 如果我们要看到一个谷歌事件的结束，我的钱是在3月/ 4月。

真的，我们越早关闭这个更好的。 媒体都在无聊的等待，他们充满了关于网络战争，所有这些都可能被伤害的恐怖故事波，损害中美关系，和一般侮辱网民的智慧。

已有的cyberwars的各种报告， 胡桃疯狂的相对宽松的 。 所有后续行一个完全混乱的Google消息和希拉里·克林顿随后的讲话中。 本文由“自由主义的”华盛顿邮报是第一个走出来，并有权从首段设置了所有其他的网络战记者随后的心情。 点击继续»

它看起来像查尔斯在新中国的鸿沟博客已经找到了新源，以振兴中国博客现场点击：辩论在中国在打击色情活动 。

虽然我通常不支持任何类型的检查，我不得不说我不关心的色情事业在中国。 从我所看到的，性别的小贩是最可耻的，垃圾邮件，病毒缠身，一般无用的互联网网站，分散他们的注意力从更重要的事情做喜欢读我的博客的网民。 你可以确信，你不会找到我在示威者的行列时，这些网站获得禁止。

然而，有一个禁止色情更重要的问题，这是中国当局的定义比我们通常理解为色情去的方式进一步。 它适用于一些精彩的 ​​艺术作品，包括电影，如李安的色戒和注意，或者这个伟大的电视连续剧 ，由柳书。 它是用来像一些优秀的艺术家唐炜边缘化，在一般情况下，有助于进一步扼杀创造力的中国文学和艺术的场景。

是肯定，多次禁止“不健康”的内容，只是一个借口摆脱持不同政见者或保护主义政策辩护。 但一般来说，当中国当局打击色情行动，它是一个真正的道德关注。 这里是在那里我看到一个更有趣的角度来讨论，将这个问题我问去年在有关职位的电视连续剧和共产主义道德的党员：为什么这么假正经呢？

从我的生活在不同的共产主义和前共产主义国家的经验，我认为这是不是严格意义上的中国现象。 事实上，它甚至不是一个共产主义的现象，而是一个处处保守的人的共同特点。 我维持，为什么在中国被禁止色情内容的原因仅仅是，中国共产党是一个极端保守的组织，并为所有的保守派，到处都厌恶性的公共显示，即使在私下，他们可能会觉得没有去妓院的5倍一个星期。

那么，为什么不保守派往往共同对性有特别的态度吗？ ，特别是为什么共产主义政权，废除所有宗教，性别相关清教的前列？

红保守党

首先，我想在这里补充一个保守派的定义，只是为了避免周围有一个词的含义，整个讨论反过来。 像大多数政治方面，这可以在不同地方有不同的含义。 我使用这个职位的意义是，我认为是最直观，最了解国际。 从大英百科全书 ：

表示偏好机构和历史发展的做法和政治态度或思想的连续性和稳定性的表现。 在当今时代，这是第一次表示，通过工程埃德蒙·伯克在法国大革命的反应，其中伯克认为其暴行玷污通过其理想。 保守派认为，实施的变化应该是最小的和渐进的，他们欣赏的历史，是较理想的现实。

在像中国这样的共产主义国家的情况下，它总是复杂，使用正常的政治方面的保守/逐行，或右/左。 原因是，1949年至1978年期间的范式被改变，和老保守派被灭绝。 因此，从零创建一个“新国家”，因此，中国政治生活中，“机构和演变历史的做法”只能算在共产党的历史定义的目的。 在中国的保守派往往是共产主义。

这种现象是很难独特。 它遵循的革命运动无处不在获得主流电源的逻辑：他们的焦点突然转向，从“改变世界”，“维持现状”，通常采取保守心态控制。

这是根本没有必要解释这个已经在中国居住的任何人，但我有一些美国人仍然觉得奇怪，打电话给一个共产主义政权的“保守”的感觉。 如果你觉得这一切仅仅是智力多嘴，你缺少了点。 中共的支持者是真正保守的人，他 ​​们的行为， 完全按照你期望从一个保守的其他地方。

从我与一些在中国共产党的热血青年男子，我在朝鲜的互联网夜长聊天的谈话中，我有一个合理的理解：什么动作那些坚信“共产党人”，他们不喜欢的外国势力，他们重视荒谬的重要性国籍和种族，他们是反对任何听起来像旧观念的思想自由或质疑，他们喜欢传统的女孩，漂亮的老炮，谁不穿迷你短裙，或在公众场合说话太多，结婚;他们不喜欢同性恋的人，他们很快叫“妓女”，当一个女孩酷似许多男人做的行为。

悲剧的是，这些保守的人绝不会是能够连接与他们的同行在美国，因为双方都仍然由他们自己的宗教和冷战rethoric的约束。 应该有人发明党的口号，如：世界的保守党，团结起来！

政治术语汤

我将不得不削减今天在这里，因为我的新博客政策不要让我做平均每个职位超过1000字。 我们将继续在未来的一，但在我结束之前，我想提的非常有趣的问题，在中国的政治术语。

由于上述范例的逆转，仍是一个很好的协议在西方的英语单词，哪些应该被用来命名一个共产主义国家的不同意识形态的混乱。 我没有在中国政治的学者，但我在主体（包括学术著作，如看书维克多施明德 ），我得到的印象，不规范的条款。 唯一的书，我已经看到，尝试做一个分类是小手册：“ 什么是中国认为 “由马克·伦纳德。

我希望有人会借给我一只手，并指出我的一些其他资源，在那里我可以看一下这件事。 在此期间，从我记得那本书和我的主动，主教派去如下：

老左： ​​在CPP要恢复毛泽东思想的强硬派。 西方相反，这些左撇子其实都是很保守的人。

老右：崇拜者和台湾的国民党，今天在大陆几乎看不见。 我从来没有见过的人，所以不知道他们是保守的字符或不。 我以为FLG许多成员将响应描述。

新左派：温家宝总理，推动更多的社会政策，公平分配的财富，等在共产党的统治，这样的政治家。 的心态仍是保守的，但小于老左派。

新右派政治家，思想家和一些企业在邓小平的启发鲨鱼“先富起来”，要优先沿海地区，并建立一个无情的资本主义制度。 他们不会有任何的心态，因为他们太忙先富，他们只要不关心政治思想作为自己的猫抓老鼠。

右左：这是我自己不正常的术语包括许志永或刘晓波等人，以及一些人士呼吁政治改革，民主权利和公民权利在中共。 其中许多是不是持不同政见者，但只是勇敢的党员敢于提出自己的声音。 这是唯一的想法，我有“进步”的心态回应。

你觉得这个术语呢？

注：此清单并不意味着可以作为参考，而是邀请参与，请提出你想要的任何条款，或指出我好读一些有关现代中国的政治。 对于那些来到这里找到一些性别，请明天再来时，我将继续与主体后，我会重视中国的色情图片。 有一个愉快的一天。

Looking back to what I wrote last week I realize that, in my effort to keep a cool head and analyze the events, I forgot to say a very important thing: I Respect Google. I have never had any doubt of the non-business nature of their decision, and, in spite of our poll's results , I am convinced it was based on the personal, ethical and political convictions of the company's leaders.

I do not like the way it has been done, but it sure takes some guts for a CEO to defy the World order, whatever the company's IPO said . My own site has been victim of censorship, and I was quick to blame Google when they helped censor initiatives like Charter 08, so it is only fair that I praise them now. Search Engine Manipulation ( SEM ) is the worst kind of censorship, because it leads the user to believe that the information contained in search results is a fair sample of the World's views. It was very difficult for Google to justify that behaviour, and it is good news that they stop being part of it. Bravo.

And yet, there are important reasons why Google has been putting up with the Chinese system for 4 years, and as far as I can see, all of those reasons are still there today. By leaving China on a whim, Google sends the message that all that work was just a big mistake. Worse still, by slamming the door on the way out, Google creates trouble for itself, for the Chinese netizens, and for the World internet community.

By any standard, Google's statement last week is a disaster. It has all the sins that a company announcement can have, not only from the PR perspective, but also from plain common sense. It is insultingly self-righteous, it fails to provide a clear reason for the decision, and it does not offer evidence for any of the accusations. Worse still, it sends an ultimatum to the government of China, revealing a thirst of political power that is very disturbing in a corporation.

Brazen cartoon on China Daily (WSJ)

The primary colors in Google's logo and its simple slogan “don't be evil” suggest a world of fairy tales where Good and Evil are clearly defined, and one can live following the Google path, righteously pointing out to others that they are in the wrong. Life is unfortunately more complex, and only very simple people can believe that God is always on their side .

Intentions and Nature of Google

I liked yesterday's article by Rebecca Mackinnon because it rejected the idiotic debate about the purity of motive of Google's leaders. On the other hand, I found it a bit too optimistic regarding the role of Google and the World internet community today.

Google is no more or less evil than most corporations. The difference is it has a developed a unique business model that requires large amounts of trust and goodwill, and it has done a great job of promoting it up to now. To the point that in the online community, it has managed to reverse the classic roles, turning the radical hacktivists into CEO-huggers. Click to continue »

Following the previous post about Google and China, here are my reflections regarding the foreseeable consequences of all this. First of all, an important clarification: I don't think fighting against censorship is bad. Censorship in China is very real, it is a disgrace not only for activists but for most honest Chinese, and it only serves the purpose of self-preservation of the CCP.

Having said this, in the previous post I criticized Google for this decision because I think the form is wrong, and the method chosen for this fight is wrong, and more importantly: the Leader of this fight should not be a corporation, much less a Western corporation going solo into politics.

On the other hand, if it was a pure business calculation I think it is wrong as well, in the long term it does not make business sense, and the growing Chinese market is likely to live much longer than any goodwill earned for this.

The more I look at the message, the more it looks like a mistake, a young idealist Googler that has escaped the supervision of his boss. What authority does this blog really have to speak for the company? the message is legit, as commentators have proven below.

In any case, here are some consequences I foresee, again in fast bullet points:

• The way the message has been drafted, chances for Google.cn to remain are slim. It will be very difficult for Google to step back from this, the whole tech World is going nuts about it. On the other hand, it is even more difficult for the Chinese authorities: even if they were willing to accept Google's conditions (which they are not) they could never allow a Western company to publicly force their policies. Unless there is some kind of recanting, Google.cn is doomed.

• The Chinese authorities can do more than forcing Google.cn out. If things go sour they are also very likely to GFW block * the whole Google.com, in which case the situation would be even worse than pre-Google.cn in 2006. Google could totally d isappear from China and say goodbye to a fast growing 20% of the World's internet users. This includes the phones and any other Google product.

• I maintain that the decision is BAD in business because consumers have very bad memories, and the goodwill gained in one day, however massive, does not last. How many companies go bust for accusations of child labor? In a few months nobody will remember this move, and Google will find itself down 20% potential market and with nothing in exchange.

• Baidu is going to go up even more, and some other Western opportunists as well. The search service of Baidu is demonstrably worse than Google, and the Chinese internet users will be the first victims of an impoverished service. The already noted Divide between China and the West will be further increased, and this can only be bad for the Chinese, and bad for Human Rights, and bad for the World.

• Regarding the bigger political picture, all this is unlikely to have any effect on American or Chinese policies unless there are many more Western companies that join Google. But no other company is going to join a crusade to bring goodwill to Google, and the move will just leave superficial scars in the CCPs internet reputation, which they will be able to heal in no time with some little doses of nationalist balm.

• Regarding the stock market, the media has noted that Google is down 1.77%, but that is not significant in a day when the whole Nasdaq was down 1.35%. Note that Baidu fell 3.51% after my yesterday's post , and probably the impact on Google will be seen today when the market opens. I am quite happy that I got rid of my Bs yesterday to buy some Gs, and today I am getting rid of the Gs again to get back the Bs. This has to be a winner move!

*Note: Servers outside of China (google.com) get blocked by the GFW, servers within China get bullied by the Nanny. Two completely different processes with a similar result. More here .

The Tiger is coming to the surface. The New decade has already come in the West, and in China we are again in this no man's land between the Solar and the Lunar New Year, between the Bull and the Tiger. It is time to look back and see where we stand.

In World politics time is measured in decades, and many will call the 00s the decade of China. It is just a simplification, these 10 years are nothing but part of a longer process started in 78, and probably still ongoing for another decade more. And yet, if we have to choose one event that marked the decade in World politics, like the end of the Cold War marked the 90s, the rise of China is the most reasonable choice. No other event is likely to be be more decisive in the history of the World.

In the first post of this Year End edition we proved that, within the general growing trend of the decade, 2008 was a peak for China's presence in the World media, and 2009 has gone back to relatively normal levels. This peak cannot hide the general trend: that China is growing inexorably to become a World superpower and that it is already changing the power balance of humanity.

Measuring the Chinese decade

If we have to chose one single parameter to measure this rise, it is the economy that can give us the best clue. There is no point in going to the decimals when analyzing decade trends, so the calculation is simple: China has grown roughly 7% faster than Western countries in the last decade, and all seems to indicate that this will continue into the 10s.

The calculation* is straightforward: 1.07^10 = 2

At a rate of 7% differential a year, the size of China's economy relative to the Western economies is doubling every decade. Today most estimates of GDP place China between 1/4 and 1/2 of the USA economy, depending if it is measured in nominal GDP or in PPP. This means that, if nothing else changes in the next decade, Chinese economy will be the biggest in the World anytime between 2020 and 2030.

The consequences of this calculation are enormous, and they are already operating today. That is because in politics we behave like in the stock market: decisions are made taking into account the foreseeable future rather than the present. China is already displacing the EU in World politics, even if it is a fraction of the European economy, even if it doesn't want to be the protagonist. The media and the politicians are betting on the future value of China.

The Question of the Decade

Of course, nothing guarantees that the growth patterns of the 00s will continue in the 10s. There is one important school of thought that insists on the unsustainability of the Chinese system. They mention corruption, growing inequality, lack of civil rights and a civil society, repression of creativity and free market, the inability to build World class brands and a financial system in disarray, among other problems, to justify their prediction that sooner or later the Chinese economy is bound to crumble.

我们这些在中国生活和工作的认识，这些问题是严重的，很真实，上下行某处有注定是一个严重的调整。 然而，相同的预测已作出定期几乎每年都在过去的三十年，和崩溃没有兑现。

这个十年真正的问题是什么时候？

中国经济将停止增长之前或之后，它已成为一个超级大国如美国的大？ 将中国认真地要求更多的权利和自由之前或之后，中国已成为一个发达的国家呢？ 会做的经济和政治的调整将逐步与新一代中国领导人，或会有爆炸危险在这十年？

我们不会有今天这个答案，你不应该相信任何人声称他们的中国问题专家。 所有我们能做的是帧上面的问题，并观看回答它在未来几年内的早期迹象。

不过，有一个声明，我们可以今天。 纵观世界，这是显而易见的，许多重要的球员已经对中国的崛起投注，这一观点被每年收集更多的支持。 正如我们上面看到的，在某种程度上，在世界上的大多数认为在超级大国的情况下，中国已经是一个超级大国。 政权是在国内生产总值提前几年，世界新秩序的今天已经是一个事实。

照片： 埃里克Risberg

*这是一个工程师的计算，任何严重的数学家的恶梦。 然而，大多数的桥梁，我们做的是仍然站立，当我们谈到十年的趋势什么比这更准确的是一个笑话。

哥本哈根峰会激发了一些媒体的激烈辩论，大部分更相关，而不是气候变化的国际政治。 其次是像一些壮观的作品马克·莱纳斯的 “卫报”上已较为温和的意见，像那些出现在单位“ ， 由内而外 ，试图了解中国和美国在这件事情的角色。

但是我就这个问题，最好的信息，周围仍是要在发现上海废钢博客的 。 他提醒我们，气候变化是不是也不可能是为政府和中国人民今天的首要任务。 这是一个“小区”的关注，完全是外国那些仍然令人担忧，是否他们的饮用水中含有的铅，或是否他们将需要一个防毒面具，呼吸北京的空气明天。

但回到这个问题：中国是否真的破坏哥本哈根协议？ 换句话说，是真的有准备签署一项协议，中国出人意料地拒绝了，破坏西方世界的奥巴马总统领导的英勇努力？

到底发生了什么在哥本哈根

你有没有注意到，当有一些非常重要的股权，政府组织首脑会议尽可能小，以得到一个有意义的协议，他们只能勉强接受在G组的新的参与者？ 气候首脑会议则正好相反，每个人都被邀请，碳足迹，越多越好。 已成为世界多边今天...尤其是当多边主义是在我们自己的利益。

气候变化，始终是一个伟大的政治课题，因为在谈判中的成功或失败所产生的问题将不会被认为在政治生活中的主角。 这是一个真正成功的唯一措施是国内公众的看法，会议结束后立即对这些科目。 和聪明的政治家，不要让机会通过编造一个好故事。

对奥巴马政府的谈判目标可以概括为：确保签署的协议是毫无意义的，足以造成工业大堂的小问题，足够强大的气候变化爱好者满意。 因为这显然是不可能的，有是一个B计划：确保无论发生任何事，这是别人的错。 这是在中国做一个优秀的合作伙伴。

部分为给在上海废钢职位的原因，部分是因为它不是一个民主国家，它可以控制内部的信息流通，中国是哥本哈根游戏比奥巴马少得多担心。 免费的内部压力，面临着非常温和的国际压力，中国领导人将在逻辑上拒绝任何协议，涉及到他们的国家牺牲。 他们也将忽视在国际媒体的语言给一个连贯的解释，提供了后哥本哈根指责的宏伟目标。

现在，我知道奥巴马的大使是不是在中国不是一个专家 ，但我不能相信他是如此无能无视上述事实。 奥巴马本人在一个月前，在中国，它是不可能的，他不知道明显的，中国永远不会签署一项协议，迫使她接受访问几乎每一个战略性产业的国际核查，并与电力暴露在世界和中国公众所有的中国的制度弱点。

我不会去说，中国和美国的立场是奥巴马和胡锦涛之间的预先安排，但我认为美国代表团到中国访问，期间和之后已经比大多数观察家所想象的更聪明。

自从“京都时代，美国是在头邪恶的碳排放。 奥巴马与他的前任不同，此刻他已经创造了一个奇迹：美国不作出任何重大让步的情况下，现在已成为气候变化政策的世界冠军。

与此同时，欧盟国家中，只有采取这种气候变化的东西，认真，再次被推到背景，因为他们缺乏可信的领导和奥巴马，聪明的美国人，已经为自己和最他的国家。

在此期间，气候正在发生变化......

我已经在媒体上读到的哥本哈根首脑会议后的最有趣的指责之一是，中国已经签署了一项协议，限制自己的排放量，防止发达国家。 这是愚蠢的，它可以使其成中国每日头条。 中国怎样才能防止美国/欧盟/日本从它们之间签署的一项协议，以减少自己的排放量？

，认真，如果我们要采取行动对付气候变化，我会建议：发达国家之间达成一项协议，就像我们做了这么多以前的事情，并付诸实践，即使没有中国呢？

是的，我知道，使有效减碳，所有国家都应该参与。 但同样可以说，关贸总协定/世贸组织和许多其他交易时，这并没有阻止我们从签约，并推入中国要晚得多。 一旦发达的世界是统一的，它总是要容易得多游说方面的一些标准，或不符合国家实施制裁。

但为什么做这一切时，很容易用更少的公共内容？

也有一些，虽然不是来自中国，使他们成为当地文化的一部分，由中国彻底拥抱的信念。 一个例子是佛教从印度进口，在远古时代。 另外一个，我已经找到了，是现代管理大师的教学，从美国进口的。

有趣的是，中国分析师如何继续解释所有社会现象与儒家传统，当它在我看来，必须至少有作为有影响力的时下的Johnsonian和Golemanian思想。 走进任何一个中国书店或退房当地海盗的三轮车，自我完善和奶酪管理 职称规则最高。 面前的桌子上的glossiest和最具流动性的书籍喜欢的：“训练自己，开始下一个谷歌”，“我是怎样从一个完整的白痴改变自己一家财富500强的CEO”，或“我建了一个公司的收购该公司在上一本书“白痴。

现在，我要提醒你这一点：上述的标题可能不是100％准确的，我在外地的自我完善文盲。 由于狂妄自大，自封的自由思想家，我能不能帮助对这些作品的几乎classist排斥，甚至对我皱眉 三轮车，卖他们。 在我多年的老欧洲，我高兴地留下来，从个人生产力的仪式。 但自从我搬到了中国，新的理念，被潜伏在每一个短语之交，所有抵抗是徒劳。

在交谈中最经常出现的概念之一，是EQ或情商，在其1995年由D.Goleman创造畅销书 。 中国分拆后的几十多年来，它已成为这里的日常生活的表达。 这并不奇怪，像EQ的思路应该是如此受欢迎，在中国竞争激烈的系统，它提供了一些急需的安慰：不要担心，如果你没有使之成为一个顶级的统一 - 书上说 - 因为它是不是智商，而是情商，将决定你的未来。 两人的IQ / EQ在中国也被称为智商/情商（智尚/青商），虽然我觉得是比较常用的英文缩写。

每当情商在谈话中，我想指出，这个概念是不科学的，特别是在松散形式，它是用在这里。 我wikipedic博学但始终未能打动当地人，我已经看到我的情商在多个场合简易分析。 这发生在我的第一次是在与我的同事佳，否则明亮的工程师的午餐，我在中国逗留的第一年。 我还记得它几乎淋漓尽致：

- ULN，中国是不错的。
- 谢谢 - 我忽略了它。 注释是标准的普通话破冰船。
- 你有一个很好的智商 - 他继续。
- 嗯，谢谢，你也不会坏。
- 是的，但。
- 但是呢？ -

他看着我的眼睛目不转睛。 它必须一直被称为“坦率的积极有力的”情感的书362页的表达。 当已建立的外观，他着手：

- IQ是不够好。
- 无？
- 不，你应该看你的情商。
- 你的意思是，阿Q，鲁迅吗？
- 不，我的意思是情商。
- 那么，是谁写的，一个呢？
- 没有任何人。
- 这不是一本书吗？
- 这是许多书籍。
- 是什么好？
- 在这里听。 EQ是什么解释了为什么一些低智商的人在生活中获得更高的智商比别人！
- 你的意思是，像关系。
- 不一样，情绪智力。
- 啊，我还以为......
- 广西只是它的一部分。 EQ是你的技能得到生活！
- 我看。

但我没有看到。 人类的关系和非技术技能是必要的职业生涯中是一个很明显的事情，我应该像一个胡思乱想的旧机动车检查我的参数是一个完全不同的一个。

- 你的智商是好的 - 他坚持 - 但是你应该看你的情商。
- 像什么？
- 就像有总部平仓，这将是一个为您的事业的好棋。
- 什么？
- 一个企业的水平位置是利用你的外籍经验的方式。
- 但我不想住在巴黎！
-你看，这是EQ。

我开始感到有点恼火的理念。 我经受另一种“移情积极渗透”当我绘制我的反击。

- 所以，为什么你不申请去巴黎自己吗？ - 我终于说。
- 什么，我？
- 是的，当然，你有更多的经验！
- 但我不是一个外籍！
- 那么，它不是必需的。
- 你知道，ULN - 他略微停顿了一下 - 我有我的孩子要照顾。
- 有家庭套餐。
- 她永远不会让我，我的公婆会杀了我！
- 哈！ 我说胜利 - 你应该看你的EQ！
- 但我已经这样做了！！

而这一次，他迅速扭过头去，遗忘的EQ看起来，仿佛隐藏着一些可耻的思想。 但为时已晚，我已经抓到他了。 这回轮到我拉线程。

- 佳呢？
- 真的吗？
- 你是相当严重的，对这个EQ吧？
- 呃，我......我可以做什么。
- 在公司建立良好的关系，是一个很好的策略，对吗？
- 呃...... 你可能会说。
- 就像在总部的一个朋友，例如，对不对？
- 咦？ 不，不，我当然没有说......我不会...
- 佳呢？
- 嗯？
- 你有一个很好的情商，贾庆林，你知道吗？
- 哦，哈哈，不，不，谢谢，你有一个很好的智商......

因此，奥巴马是在中国，即使他是不是我的总统，他仍然是我最喜欢的总统。 这里是我的第一手访问的分析。

最重要的新闻，令人惊讶了注意，所有观察员的是，奥巴马想成为欧洲在中国广西巴马。 这是我读新的拼写他的名字在字符，通过该网站提出白宫 ：

欧巴马（oubama）将取代奥巴马，其中欧汉字欧洲，​​使中国的名字听起来像欧巴马。

也许有人会说，新的拼写选择更大的拼音相似，或者是因为它是在台湾的标准，但是当政治家听取语言学家？ 欧元奥巴马命名有明确的政治动机，并在该项目中我看到了光明的未来。

我觉得我说话的时候我说，我们非常高兴地看到，在执行这个计划终于大量的欧洲人。 奥巴马先生，请扫除一堆不称职的总统和总理，并成为欧洲联盟的国王。 然后，也许在下次会议上与中国可以代表我们团结的利益，而不是让每个欧洲部落中共发送其小的可怜的行政巧妙地划分和操纵A LA “孙子兵法 。

我喜欢的是欧洲的事情之一是，你可以对UE进行彻底爱国，无人问津。 亲爱的华盛顿邮报的评论员，请不用担心了。 美国是不是尚未下降，也不会是很长一段时间。 除其他原因，因为它需要的是太无能团结在国际政治中的欧洲国家。 而事实上，当中国人看到奥巴马，他们看到尽可能多的西方领导人，因为他们看到的美国领导人。 因为从这里看到，西，欧洲，美洲，或欧美研究（欧美）的概念从未所有不同。

这个重要的地缘政治考虑后，可以继续读什么是阅读访问。 基本上没有，因为没有真正的新闻已经出现的是，大多数记者和博客都在其列，他们的最好，以填补与中国泛泛。 除了上面的链接，有趣的问题是：

• 奥巴马将“ 人权观察“的黑监狱和其他人权问题的报告发表评论？ 当然，这不会发生，没有更多的比胡锦涛将阐述新的理论，解放西藏。 但有趣的是辩论的缘故。

• 也许更可能的是，他提到了环境，这个博客建议 。 我敢肯定，两国领导人会提到它，其实，不同的是有多少承诺将来自会议。 从无声世界的其余部分，我们将拭目以待，看2个巨人，如果最终决定，使一招，并退出其油烟发送到我们​​的后院。

• 最后，还有很多文章说奥巴马狂热，并作出了大不了的，因为在选举之前已在中国流传Obamao图标。 我的看法是，年轻的现代中国人往往喜欢奥巴马，他是轻微比布什更受欢迎。 但有没有这样的事情，我们在欧洲看到的Obamania和这里大多数人采取“观望”的冷立场。 分钟欧也提到了一些微妙的问题，或遇到一些老喇嘛，它会采取不超过一分钟以及措辞的中央电视台新闻抹成稀薄的空气Obamania。

所以已经退出Obamaos，并给我一些Eurobamas，我们越来越厌倦了政治，在这个大陆的另一边。

现在，我是在一个自由的互联网国家，我的机会来看看CDT的网站，我发现这个有趣的问题，从人贾兹拉：如果失去了毛，会发生什么？

我不是在对反事实历史的原则，它可以在很多情况下是有用的，从不同的角度看到的事件。 这也使得热闹的酒吧交谈和博客评论。 但这种运动意义的基本条件是，在我看来，连锁分析事件有任何实际发生的机会。

例如：它可能是有趣的想象世界本来如果希特勒在1944年企图暗杀死亡，或会出现什么情况，如果毛泽东之前死于大跃进。 在物理实验，通过隔离稍后因素，以类似的方式，我们尝试分析政策的影响到这一点。 但有分析的结果不可能甚至荒唐的事件，幽默的目的以外的兴趣不大。 如果希特勒在1941年突然成为和平主义者？

回到了这一点：“如果毛泽东失去了什么？”这个问题视为只是一个历史的意外，运气问题，结果，像希特勒的炸弹，可能已决定由Fluke蒋介石战败。

但江泽民的失败（或撤退）是不是一个单一的战斗的结果。 问这个问题的人忘记，江泽民有多年的力量，与所有国家的工具，在他的控制之下最大的人口和领土的一部分，和来自其他国家的军事和经济援助。 多年来，所有的赔率是在他的身边。 “如果毛泽东失去了吗？”在这个问题隐含的机会已经给江。 和最好的答案是：

If Mao had lost, Jiang lost anyway

There were profound reasons that made Jiang's system impossible. His ideology–or lack thereof–was not appealing enough at a moment when China needed a catalyzer for all its unleashed energy. Something was needed to rally the people against the oppression of the foreigners and of the local tyrants, and Jiang was not delivering in any of the two fronts. China needed something to believe in. If Mao hadn't been there, another leader would have sold the idea, or other worse ideas , and who knows the frightful regime that might have resulted.

This failure of Jiang to inspire, together with the corruption inherent to his regime, condemned him to impose power by raw force. A scheme that worked well when he moved over to Taiwan with supporters and soldiers in large number relative to the local population, but it simply could not have worked in mainland China. It would have required a level of organized brutality that only a fanatic could accept.

So Mao won, and then what?

So back to reality: Mao won. He played his cards much better and he won by a mile. Then some years later he proved to be less gifted as a politician than as a revolutionary. Worse still–and this is really his worst sin–he fell in love with himself and with power, and he didn't have the good sense to listen to capable advisers, nor the dignity to retire when he was still in time. The “70% good/30% bad” judgement passed by Deng was probably too generous, but inevitable: to condemn Mao was to condemn the work of his life. Deng could not do more than he did, and of those who came after him, not a single one had what it takes to even dare touch this question.

And here is, in my opinion, the heart of the matter: why is Mao still so present in the Chinese psychology? When are we going to move on? The Chairman is not just stuck on a wall, he is imprinted very deeply in the collective mind of the Chinese, and through compulsory education, propaganda and parades like last week's, he holds to his place and no amount of economic progress can sweep him away.

Here is an example of what I mean : Recently I lent the book “Mao: The Unknown Story” , by Chang Jung –a book that is very critical of Mao– to a Chinese friend. This friend is young, and liberal to the point that he believes Dalai Lama is a good man. And yet, when two weeks later I asked him about the book, I got a reaction that shocked me. “This woman is not really Chinese” , “You cannot understand”, were among the broken phrases that he grumbled. I know this book is surely not the most balanced biography of Mao, and I was open to accept many of his arguments. But I saw there was no point in discussing further, because somehow we had landed in the territory of hurt feelings.

But the interesting discussion today is not whether Mao was 70% right or 17.5%. The past is past, and there is no use in digging up the skeletons again, except for specialists in history. The key is the present, and the reason why Mao still holds his place should be searched in the leaders of today.

The answer is simple: Mao is there because he is still needed. No matter how terrible his failures and how cruel the consequences–and most Chinese know them well–Mao is still the only one that gives some ideological content to the system. He provides the meaning to the colourful parade of last week, and to the other parade of black suited mummies that is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”. And that is the reason why most Chinese are so quick to excuse him: “He was good man used by his wife”, they say, or “it was not his fault, he was senile”.

Ideals are important for a society to believe in itself. In the West we have democracy, human rights, religion, a whole range of them to suit all the sensibilities. As often as not, they are utilized by politicians for their own selfish goals and devoided of any real meaning. But at least they are ideals, and they give us the illusion that our struggle is worth fighting. I see people discussing Obama or Bush, and whatever the real effect of their policies might be, it is obvious that they give a meaning to politcs in America.

In China, on the contrary, the only ideal since Mao died has been Deng's “Get Rich”. Many theories have been published since, filling thick books with party rhetoric, but not a single one of them contained anything that the people could believe in, or even understand. Once and again, the actions of the party have shown that above any other consideration, the only important objective is GDP, and the maintenace of the status quo.

There is a serious lack of leadership in the communist party of China, partly due to the internal mechanisms of the party itself . Strictly materialistic objectives are quickly dissapointing, for those that achieve them as much as for those left behind, and the people naturally turn for inspiration to the only ideals available: nationalism and Mao. And so it happens that the old portrait cannot be taken down, because it is there to cover a hole. The black hole of Chinese politics.

First impressions are usually mistaken, but they are also interesting because the eye is alert to any novelty, and the culture clash is rich with ideas. Warning: this post contains sweeping generalizations. Take it for what it is, and if you are serious about understanding Japan you might want to look somewhere else.

I came to Japan quite randomly, I wanted to spend the holidays in a quiet and relaxing place, and in the week of the Chinese National Day, Japan seemed the only place near enough with the right conditions. I am preparing for the high level HSK later this month, and the plan was to take a few hours a day to practise my characters.

I chose the South of Japan on purpose, with the vague idea that they would probably be a bit more relaxed than in the North, and therefore more suited to my Southern European nature. I soon found out my assumption was wrong. For one reason, there seems to be no such a thing as “South Japan”. Although this place is clearly in the South, they call it West Japan. And the character of the people here is diametrically opposed to any notion of latin indulgence I might have harboured.

The cultural shock came right from the first contact. It was the passport controller at the airport of Fukuoka. I had been given the immigration card in the airplane and, like usual, I had quickly filled my “address on destination” box with a lazy “Hotel Nagasaki”. I couldn't remember the real name of the hotel, and anyway these things are never checked in any reasonable country. In Japan they are. And that is how I met my second Japanese.

“What did you write in this box?,” said the inspector when I was led to his office, pointing at the place in my card.

“Hotel Nagasaki?” I said.

“There is no hotel by this name”.

“No, no, I didn't mean it literally,” I explained, “It is short for 'a hotel in Nagasaki'.”

“Reservation receipt please?”

“Er.. it is in my mailbox, I haven't printed it out.”

And they took me to a series of offices until they found a place where I could connect to the internet and produce my hostel reservation from hostelworld. This took about an hour, enough to convince them that I was a dangerous outlier, so the inspector led me to the searching department.

My third Japanese was an older man who did the most meticulous search I have seen in my life, even feeling with his bare fingers all along the sole of my well seasoned travel socks. He searched into every possible hiding place in my bags and my body, except for that precise one that you were just imagining.

All the while, the three of them -my first three Japanese - treated me with scrupulous respect, constantly smiling, and polite to the point of scary.

One of the things that was shocking in my first dealings in the shops is the “hi!” sound that they emit all the time, to say hello or to hand you something. It comes constantly and accurately, timed like a semiquaver, dressing any human exchange with a singular martial tone. But the most awe inspiring feature is their absolute, compulsive, anal obsession with cleanliness. This country must be the cleanest place I have seen in the World by a large margin.

I came to this conclusion during lunch in one Western cafe in Nagasaki, were I witnessed some peculiar behaviour. It was raining outside, and every time a new client finished paying his order, the cashier walked around the bar with a clean tissue and bent down to wipe the drops of water left by the client's shoes. A completely unreasonable action, even for safety purposes, because the other side of the cafe next to the entrance door was permanently wet and left unwiped.

The only explanation, I figured after a while, was that the entrance area was out of the field of vision of the cashier, hidden by the tables. It wasn'ta safety procedure, it was just that she just could not bear the sight of some drops of water on the spotless floor in front of the bar, even if it was almost pure H2O from the immaculate street outside.

I am impressed by this aspect of the Japanese culture, and I wonder how the thousands of Japanese living in Shanghai cope with the hygiene situation there. I guess this explains why, being by far the largest foreign community in Shanghai, we see so little of them. They must all stick to their Gubei compounds and restaurants and avoid leaving the area unless it is strictly necessary.

The service in the restaurants here is excellent, and the food is prepared with so much care that you actually feel sorry to eat it. The Japanese like things well done, and they manage because, like most Chinese, they are very hard workers. But there is an essential difference in the motivations: Chinese exert themselves for a dream, to buy a car or a better house, or just to avoid being left behind by their fast ecoomy. Japanese already have all those things. Like Westerners, they have little left to dream that can be bought with money. So it seems that they work for the sake of work well done, out of a strong sense of duty and perfection.

When I came to Japan, I was prepared to find meticulous people who revere order. I thought it would be somehow similar to Germany, and although that kind of country is not exactly my idea of fun, it definitely fitted the bill for my week of retirement and study. But Japan is not even comparable to Germany. As far as I have seen it goes further in the field of obsession, to an extreme that for a newcomer -a Southern European one, at any rate- feels like borderline pathologic.

I don't want to judge the character of the different peoples. Each culture has its own ways, and all is well as long as we get along. I just wonder if the little world of efficiency and perfection that the Japanese have built around them is not but an exhausting illusion, and if, somewhere in the middle of all their productive activity, they find the time to think of what is important and just enjoy. The people I am meeting here–starting from the fourth one– are positive and friendly, and I have no reason to suspect they are not contented.

I have just been speaking with a PhD in electro microscopy who is in Nagasaki for a World congress in the field. He tells me that more than half of the participants are German and Japanese, because these two countries rule in electro microscopy applications. Somehow I am not surprised.

“It is a good thing we have Japanese and Germans,” I told him, “Otherwise we would be in trouble to wipe the dust between the atoms”